Six-Kingdom Oral Nutritional Supplement Composition

ABSTRACT

The invention is a nutritional composition in unit dosage form for oral administration to an animal or human, which includes at least one ingredient from each of six biological Kingdoms selected from the group consisting of animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, protist and archaea. Each ingredient is co-admixed with every other said ingredient without further addition of synthetic excipients or fillers, and is typically formulated in dried powder form as a drink mix, food or beverage additive or as the fill for hard or soft capsules or other dosage forms including tablets (the compositions of the invention can generally be tableted without addition of ingredients beyond the nutrients themselves).

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

This nonprovisional patent application claims priority to, andincorporates herein by reference, U.S. Provisional Patent ApplicationNo. 62/275,446 filed Jan. 6, 2016. As the field of the invention, thepresent innovation pertains to nutritional supplements that havemeasurable preventive and therapeutic effects on the human body, with anexplanation of how and why. This application is also a continuingapplication of U.S. Ser. Nos. 15/399,190 and 16/154,245.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Description of Related Art

It is not controversial to admit that, most if not all of the time,there are some tensions between allopathic or pharmaceutical treatmentphilosophies and the perspective of prevention and natural healingmethods promoted within natural medicine. A current initiative in cancerdrug development, for example, is to emphasize cancer treatment drugsbecause cancer preventives are now thought, pharmaceutically speaking,to be too elusive to chase. At the same time, the natural or integrativephysician holds that the human body is capable of so much more than wecurrently understand, in healing and protecting itself, that the bestnutritional boost is the one that helps the body do what it does, butbetter. From the natural health perspective, then, the body is able bothto prevent and to fight disease and degeneration, if given the buildingblocks to do so. The natural health practitioner would seldom if everseek a cure at the expense of a possible preventive, and instead prefersto remain open to the possibilities of both.

Happily, all camps understand and acknowledge the essential importanceof comprehensive nutrition to wellness, whether disease prevention,recovery, or both. The challenge lies in grasping, ultimately, whatcomprehensive nutrition is, and how to implement it. Nutritionalsupplements of many sorts have gone in and out of vogue over the lastseveral decades. Even if last month's protein shake or last week'sspirulina smoothie feels a bit less clich—and obsolescent than, say, asynthetic multi-vitamin-and-mineral tablet from 1966, up until thepresent invention there has been a palpable sense among manynutritionists that the What and the Why of nutrition was still a bit ofa mystery. Vitamins, minerals, certain probiotics, omega-3 fatty acids,co-enzyme Q10, glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate—many people knowthese terms and even remember to take these supplements regularly, andhave a good understanding of why to do so. However, pockets ofindigenous people in remote areas often experience stunningly goodhealth compared to the developed world, and there has seldom been athorough explanation as to how or why or common thread of nutritionalpractice linking these peoples together. The broader question thereforeis—what should an adult man or woman consume, weekly if not daily, asthe optimal nutritional supplement for maximized health maintenance,disease prevention and recovery? What is the scientific and verifiableextent of nutritional supplementation that makes a measurable differencein preventive and curative health, rather than continuing to guess andto experiment? If one knew the answer to these questions, one wouldhardly ignore the opportunity.

Accordingly, a need remains for a nutritional supplement regime—theultimate nutritional initiative for men or women—that is safe,broad-spectrum, energy-creating, digestion stimulating andimmunomodulating, all in ways that facilitate the human body's abilityto prevent and fight diseases including infections and even cancer.Empirically, that first-developed synthetic vitamin-and-mineral tablethas not been able to achieve such an effect, and no one ever expectedthat it would. Is there, though, a nutritional supplement or system ofsupplementation that can optimally boost disease prevention and recoveryin a broad way and, if so, what is it and how does it work?

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

In order to meet this need, the present broad-spectrum nutritionalsupplement system is a composition, for oral administration in unitdosage form, which essentially contains at least one unrefined orminimally refined (as long as rendered safe) ingredient from each of thesix Kingdoms of biology, namely, animal, plant, fungi, bacteria, protistand archaea. (Everything is simple once you know it.) Candidates fromeach category are readily apparent to those skilled in the art, butknowing to combine a representative of each of the six categories in asingle nutritional supplement, while maintaining the ingredients in anunrefined or minimally refined state while still rendered safe forconsumption, is a key to the present invention and a novel initiative innutritional supplementation.

There is nothing merely brute-force about selecting at least one agentfrom each of the six Kingdoms for combination in the presentcomposition—that is, the invention is not a matter of “more-is-better.”The applicant has determined that the six-Kingdom ingredient combinationgives unexpectedly improved results over other nutritional supplementsfor the following reasons. If an agent from each Kingdom is present, notonly will there be nutritional supplementation of virtually any categoryof nutrient (animal can provide certain omega-3 fatty acids, B-12 andpre formed vitamin A; fungi supply vitamin D2, beta glucans and enzymes;sources of archaea provide organically bound minerals and organic acids;and so forth) but a heretofore unavailable synergy occurs when all sixKingdom agents are present. For example, the co-administration ofprobiotic bacteria and unrefined or minimally refined dietary sources ofarchaea, such as deep sea minerals, Shilajit, or clays, promote agreater growth and proliferation of the bacteria within the digestivetract. In other words, co-administration of naturally-occurringprobiotics and mineral/organic acid combinations in the same compositionassures gut flora balance in a way that administration of either alonecannot accomplish. Separately, the co-administration of a protist agentwith an archaea containing ingredient will prolong the viability of theprotist ingredient after ingestion in a manner roughly analogous tohaving enteric coated it, because the archaea chemically protects theprotist life form or concomitant enzyme. Maybe most importantly, thebroad-spectrum administration of six Kingdom nutrient species has animmunomodulating effect, that is, acts to avoid either the unwantedimmune activation or immune suppression which inevitably do more harmthan good when they occur abruptly.

Immunomodulation occurs, in the context of this invention, when the bodyas a whole is flooded with every conceivable life form and nutrientcategory and, quixotically, the body calms itself as a result of theonslaught and thus does not overreact to any of the individual stimuliwhile remaining flexible to act appropriately as to allimmune-significant events. The present nutritional supplementcomposition can thus reduce allergies and asthma at the same time itboosts healthy (modulated) immune responses to insults of pathogens orpoisons, just as the body is supposed to respond. The presence ofrepresentatives from all six Kingdom nutritional categories creates afurther synergy in that the nutritive elements all help one another—theminerals help the vitamins help the probiotics and so forth. In summary,until the present invention it was difficult if not impossible to attainall of antibiotic effect in the gut, and and allergy and asthmasuppression, all while providing a comprehensive nutritional therapy forimmunomodulation, energy enhancement, digestive- and circulatory-systemimprovement. While specific formulas are described below, with referenceto ingredients from each of the six biological Kingdoms, the inventionitself inheres in the new, useful and nonobvious combination ofnutritional representatives from all six Kingdoms (importantly minimallyrefined or unrefined while still being rendered safe for humanconsumption as needed) and administered in a prepared composition fororal administration.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

In the context of the present invention, “broad spectrum” means “havingmultiple physiological effects on the immune system, metabolism,digestion and circulation.” In other contexts, of course, broad-spectrummeans something else. A broad-spectrum antibiotic would conventionallybe understood to have antibiotic activity against a number ofmicroorganisms. In the present invention, the focus of action isentirely different: the present nutritional supplement is broad-spectrumto act beneficially as to the immune system, metabolism, digestion andcirculation precisely because it contains at least one ingredient fromeach of the six biological Kingdoms (animal, plant, fungi, bacteria,protist, and archaea) and can therefore by definition affect allpossible biological function all at the same time due to its extremelybroad array of macro and micronutrients, multi and single cellularmicroorganisms and their metabolites, and phytonutrients.

The present invention combines a nutritional ingredient (at least one,and possibly more than one) from each of the biological Kingdoms ofanimal, plant, fungi, bacteria, protist and archaea.

While the invention pertains to any nutritional supplement oralcomposition combining ingredients from each of the six Kingdoms, certaincategories of nutrient types are preferred as follows.

-   -   ANIMAL: fish roe, fish oil, organ meats from land animals, dairy        products and derivatives, fowl eggs, insects (including but not        limited to crickets, grubs, termites, grasshoppers, pod borers,        dragonflies, hawk moths, rice borers, catepillers, cutworms,        silkworms, bollworms, ants, beetles, water bugs, bees, wasps,        yellow jackets, cicadas, stink bugs, weevils, katydids, lucusts,        scorpions, mantis and spiders—see for example “World List of        Edible Insects 2015, Yde Jongema, Wageningen University).    -   PLANT: herbs, spices, sprouts, seeds, fruits, or vegetables.    -   FUNGI: mushrooms, fungal enzymes, vitamin and mineral rich        yeasts, anf amino acid rich yeasts.    -   BACTERIA: Bacillus, Lactobacillus, Acetobacter, and bacterial        enzymes.    -   PROTIST: micro algae and macro algae including but not limited        to red algae and spirulina; phytoplankton; mold-based enzymes.    -   ARCHAEA: deep sea minerals and sea salts; shilajit, and        bentonite clay and other clays containing archaea.

Although the invention has been described above the following examplesare illustrative.

EXAMPLE 1

An oral nutritional supplement according to the invention is prepared asfollows.

Each hard shell capsule contains 675 mg of the following raw materialsin dried powder from each of the six Kingdoms.

-   -   Fish Roe: 200 mg    -   Turmeric Root: 200 mg    -   Reishi Mushroom: 100 mg    -   Spirulina: 100 mg    -   Bacillus coagulans: 50 mg    -   Deep Sea Salt: 25 mg

EXAMPLE 2

An oral nutritional supplement according to the invention is prepared asfollows. Each hard shell capsule contains 675 mg of the following rawmaterials in dried powder from each of the six Kingdoms.

-   -   Venison Liver: 200 mg    -   Goji Berry: 200 mg    -   Lion's Mane Mushroom: 100 mg    -   Chlorella: 100 mg    -   Lactobacillus salivarius: 50 mg    -   Himalayan shilajit: 25 mg

EXAMPLE 3

An oral nutritional supplement according to the invention is prepared asfollows. Each scoop of powder contains 2,000 mg of the following rawmaterials in dried powder from each of the six Kingdoms.

-   -   Whey Protein: 1,000 mg    -   Spinach: 200 mg    -   Saccharomyces cerevisea sbspp boulardii: 200 mg    -   Kelp: 200 mg    -   Bacillus subtilis: 200 mg    -   Montmorillionite Clay: 200 mg

The present composition is specifically oral. Of course it is possibleto supplement nutrients through parenteral, transdermal, buccal or manyother routes of administration, but for the synergies asserted here toobtain the administration must be oral. For example, it is not possibleto enhance gut flora directly, as the present composition does, unlessthe present supplement is actually ingested. While there may be benefitsof administering representative nutrient sources from all six Kingdomsby some route of administration other than oral, for the purpose of thenew and unexpected results of the present invention the administrationmust be by normal ingestion and therefore the invention is an oraldosage form. From the standpoint of a legitimate superfood, also, thepresent composition does not contain any synthetic additives orexcipients other than the nutritional ingredients themselves. Theabsence of synthetic excipients or fillers enhances the ability of thesix (or more) ingredients to create novel synergies. Having said that,however, those skilled in the art will understand that “one man's filleris another man's nutrient.” For example, if carageenan is desired foruse in the present invention, as a polysaccharide derived from red algaeand for its nutritional purpose, it will be an active agent in thisformulation even though, say, in a commercial ice cream it might beconsidered a thickener or additive. Ultimately, the point of everyingredient in the present invention is its nutritional profile, andbecause all six biological Kingdoms are represented as a practicalmatter the formulation of the admixed ingredients into capsules,tablets, powders or ready to drink beverages is straightforward. Inother words, by using all six biological Kingdom ingredientrepresentatives, an eminently compoundable admixture results that needsno further additives.

Whereas particular embodiments of this invention have been describedabove for purposes of illustration, it will be evident to those skilledin the art that numerous variations of the details of the presentinvention may be made without departing from the invention as defined inthe appended claims.

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 11. A method of supplementing nutrition in an animal orhuman, consisting essentially of administering, in unit dosage form, acombination of an aliquot each of six constituents each consistingessentially of an unrefined dried powdered substance from each of sixbiological kingdoms consisting of animal, plant, fungi, bacteria,protist and archaea, wherein prior to administration each of said sixconstituents is admixed together without addition of separate excipientsor fillers prior to said administering step.
 12. The method of claim 11,wherein said unrefined dried powdered substances are further comminutedinto a reconstitutable powder.
 13. The method of claim 12 in which saidreconstitutable powder is formulated into a ready to stir drink mix. 14.The method of claim 12 in which said reconstitutable powder isformulated into a functional food to be administered as said unit dosageform.